Yesterday I had an exchange with a good friend who said that he has friends living in Israel and while it might be the fairest way to go to have a one-state solution, it would involve great bloodshed. Steve Walt…
Is this fair? Some in Congress want to hold up Gaza aid till Israeli soldier-prisoner Gilad Shalit is released. Writes a friend: These members of Congress are openly backing collective punishment against a devastated community living under occupation and siege….
I only have one foot on the ground (that’s the definition of this blog, Rabbi Hillel meets the luftmensch and goes for a ride) but I can’t think of a more hopeful piece to read tonight than rbguy’s wonderful reporting…
Jim Lobe has a devastatingly-smart analysis of the new State Department, including the bad news that Dennis Ross seems to have legs, on the 7th floor, guiding Iran policy, and that Hillary is reading neocon thinktank papers. Ideas, ideas, ideas–the…
Jack Ross on Chabad, referring to the next post down: I’m not sure whether or not its fair to hold them up as representing anyone but themselves. On the one hand they do more or less represent a narrow a…
A few months back, my friend Mark and I exposed the pseudonymous conservative columnist Spengler as the nom-de-plume of a LaRouchie-cum-neocon musician/trader named David P. Goldman. We decided to unmask him because author investigations are fun, and also because Spengler…
Jeff Blankfort got this map sent to him by the Jewish Week, as a form of email advertising for Chabad in New York. Blankfort writes: Like many other maps I have seen over the years issued by Jewish organizations, secular…
is that I can run this AP photograph from Gaza, taken in January by German photographer Anja Niedringhaus, as often as I like. I’ve run it once. I ought to run it every day. The boy at the right is…
A sharp friend makes an interesting observation about Roger Cohen’s important op-ed about Iran that appeared in the New York Times on March 1: It goes very far in challenging the MSM and high establishment gospel that Iran is an…